African-American Military Trailblazers

1st Lt. Tony Wickman
Alaskan Command
Public Affairs

ACROSS
1. Disorder or confusion
6. Ho __ Minh
9. Examine by trial
14. Pervade
15. Coop resident
16. Central Perk offering
17. First black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Powell
18. Op and fine
19. Wal-Mart or Target
20. First American of WWI to receive French Croix de Guerre
22. Female sheep
23. Shut out
26. Greatest in age
29. The Greatest
30. Music player
33. Edge
34. Cistern
35. Black fighter ace of WWI
36. ___ Paulo, Brazil
37. Native or resident of (suffix)
38. ___ Angeles, CA
39. Twilled cloth of worsted
41. Fluid in tissue spaces
44. Actress Carrere
47. Aries sign
49. Personal ad abbrev.
50. X or gamma
51. African hunts
54. Course of action
57. Ukraine city
58. Lout
59. Model MacPherson
60. Burden
63. First Black graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy
65. Healthy
66. Sea eagle
67. Garfield foil
68. Singer Doris
69. Cincinnati team
70. First Black Air Force 4-star general of AFMC

DOWN
1. Mil. abbreviation for President
2. Health org.
3. YA-1 aircraft for USAF, in short
4. Séance board
5. Spanish sir
6. Martial arts actor Jackie
7. John Glenn middle name
8. Lean ___ the wind
9. USAF PME
10. Satisfied
11. First black to receive MOH for WWI
12. Closure of a normal body opening
13. Cowboy: “___-haw!”
21. Close
23. First Black graduate of USMA to become general officer
24. Make proud
25. Vampire is one
27. Ancient country of west-central Asia Minor
28. Mil. moving organization
30. Two people
31. Or ____; final warning
32. First Black promoted to the four- star grade
35. Blur or redden (the eyes)
40. First Black flag officer in the Navy
42. Take apart
43. Army AFSC equivalent
44. Plant of the genera Trifolium, Lotus
45. Sam _ __; Penn movie
46. Affirmative vote
48. Black seaman credited w/ 6 plane kills at Pearl Harbor, won Navy Cross
51. Take an oblique course
52. Was hurt
53. Pal
55. 1960s programming language for business
56. British writer Thomas noted for Wessex novels
61. Mining goal
62. __ Moines, IA
64. Tiny